Tuesday, September 1, 2009

I baked this week's entry early this morning before my first (and hopefully only) day of jury duty. It has been too hot in Los Angeles to cook any other time. I am now starting this post using my iPod Touch and free WiFi at the courthouse...how do you iPhone people manage this keyboard?! My finger is cramping, I keep hitting the wrong letters, and oh my gosh, I'm getting motion sick seeing those letters pop out at me. (I have an LG Envy phone and it has a "raised" touchable QWERTY keyboard that I can use without looking. Um, I need to be schooled by my iPhone peeps or eventually forget getting the iPhone and pick up the Blackberry.)

Swirl the brownie batter with the espresso cheesecake batter before baking

I skipped the sour cream topping and don't really have a review because I can't eat them...dairy is pretty much a foe of mine now. I'm crazy not happy about that. Sadly, I now chew (to check if I accidentally used salt instead of sugar and to check the texture) and then I spit it out. Sigh. However, the flavors I did get were pretty tasty!! :)

...Back home now for lunch, shoot some photos and post this entry (using a real computer keyboard! :) I am crossing my fingers I don't get picked during the second session of jury duty. They haven't called anyone yet and there are over 100 of us reading, surfing the net, and dozing off. Los Angeles County uses a one trial or one day system...so if I can just make it to 5 pm...

You really do get used to typing on an iPhone after a while--somehow you learn to ignore the pop out letters and trust the word recognition software! My iPhone is actually my little baker's assistant--I use it to look up recipes!

Your brownies look perfect - you have great swirling skills. :) I'm sorry you couldn't try any! I only had a tiny bite myself before sending the rest of them away and I'm still hitting myself for not keeping one!

May you only have a short trial if you are unlucky and get picked...I think the Michael Jackson's Doctor civil thing won't be coming on the docket for a year or so :)...I think that one will be OJ-esque in length!

Oh good luck! I hope you don't get selected! My friend just got selected to be on a grand jury and he has to do it FOR A MONTH! Your swirls are amazing... but you know what is also amazing? The iPhone. Puts the blackberry to shame (besides the whole "emails take a bit longer to come through" thing). You'll get used to the keyboard ... the t9 is amazing and does great word completion for you... except when you want to use a curse word or two! The apps are amazing, the phone is great, trust me, you'll never look back.

I'm on pins and needles wondering if you got jury duty or not! Knock wood I've been lucky enough to just show up for the day and never get called...twice...I think I just doomed myself for next year. :) But back to business: your swirls are amazing, some of the prettiest I've seen! Sorry you're not able to enjoy them yourself :(

How did you get those swirls to be so perfectly swirly?! Gorgeous. I can sympathize with your dairy issues...though I usually blindly ignore my own dairy limitations and accept the dire consequences haha.

Your brownies are the most gorgeous of all the espresso cheesecake brownies I've seen yet! How in the world do you get such amazing lighting for your photos? They are perfection each and every time. Color me jealous :) Bummer that you couldn't eat any brownies but glad you at least got to taste them.